Here is Doyle’s reasoning in a letter to Fields.
http://www.gachristianalliance.org/docs/2008_voter_guide_sdoyle.pdf

That’s putting it mildly.

For those like me who are not fresh out of undergrad and wanted to get a JD, there really is only 2 choices, Georgia State and JMLS.

We have a new Dean who has come to us after heading up Pepperdine’s Law Scool. Pepperdine replaced Richard Lynn with an unknown attorney named Ken Starr. My Legal Writing Professor was Gwinnett State Court Judge Randy Rich.

Back to the topic at hand, I will be sending out a press release confirming that the 11th Congressional District Republican Committee endorsed Sheffield for the Court of Appeals.

While a lot of Republican attorneys I respect very highly are supporting Sarah Doyle, personally, I believe Sheffield is the better experienced for the position. He has spent his career in court and has been practicing law since Sarah Doyle was 6 years old.

This is not a legislative postion, but one that does require experience as to the issues that face when coming into court.

A judge does not need to know the law by heart to be a judge. Both Mike and Sarah would have clerks to help them look up the law to help them write their opinions. Mike’s experience comes in with decades of dealing with the rules and procedures of the court system itself and insights that can only be gained going in from of hundreds of judges over the years and seeing the good and bad points of them all.

Agreed!!!

Right….and Debbie said the same thing about ASH, Ralph Reed, and many other people.

I’m not interested in “great guys” being judges. I am interested in SANE people being judges. By SANE, I mean those types NOT prone to being yanked by any agenda…and, especially the agenda of the far-right religious groups who have proven time and time again to be ANTI-FREEDOM OF RELIGION.

Seven candidates running for appeals court opening
By BILL RANKIN

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I have a tremendous respect for Randy Evans and he supports Sheffield.
Supporters: Republican Party general counsel Randy Evans, Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charles Bannister.

Mike Sheffield
College: Wake Forest University

Law school: Emory University

Professional: Sole practitioner in Lawrenceville

Pitch: A former prosecutor and now a criminal defense attorney, Sheffield says he is well regarded by his peers, having been elected president of the DeKalb and Gwinnett bar associations. He says he was wrongly denied the chance to be in a runoff for a appeals court judgeship in 2004 when a new election was ordered because an opponent’s name was incorrectly listed on ballots in Laurens County.

Quote: “I’ll always wonder what would have happened [in the 2004 race], if they’d only counted those ballots.”

Supporters: Republican Party general counsel Randy Evans, Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charles Bannister.

I like the way you think. Years ago the fact that liberals opposed Pol Pot made me realize that maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy after all. Of course, you could say that opposing Pol Pot was a bipartisan position, but to some extent the same could be said of Sara Doyle. So regardless of any hints of unity within the legal community for one candidate or another, what really matters is that liberals have made their choice and we must stand against them. Go Pol Pot Mike Sheffield!!!

The only thing I want to hear a judge say is “I will follow the laws passed by the legislature and signed by the governor to the best of my ability except when they conflict with the State or Federal Constitutions.”

Justice is not joining the bench with the intent to “fight for families” or “protect business”. Justice is making sure that even the rights of jerks and infamous are protected. Unfortunately, no one in the position to become judge seems willing to set aside partisan leanings and actually do the job a judge is supposed to do.

She would not get such a ringing endorsement from them for just saying no to discrimination. I understand that she refused to fill out questionaires from conservative groups but did for GA Equality. That speaks volumes.

http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=9/29/2008@26400

“According to online campaign contribution records, Doyle has backed a mix of candidates. She gave $200 to Perdue’s campaign in 2000—and similarly modest donations to state Sen. M. Kasim Reed, an Atlanta Democrat and fellow Holland & Knight partner, and Ashley S. Harris, a lawyer and unsuccessful Democratic primary challenger for the state Legislature in 2006. She also made a $50 donation to the campaign of then-Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher’s 2002 re-election campaign. Doyle has said she declined to answer the sort of issue questionnaires—from Georgia Right to Life and the Georgia Christian Alliance—that some conservative candidates have answered in the past. ”

Then there are her comments below from Fulton County Daily Report:

http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=9/29/2008@26400

“But a closer look at Doyle’s candidacy shows a blurrier political picture. The candidate says voters would be wrong to assume she’s a Republican. “I don’t think that politics should play a role in the judicial elections,” says Doyle. She says she’s “not a cause person.”

No, I also did not say Mercer grads are unethical. One of the reasons you butted up against me is because you repeatedly put words in my mouth and try to argue against made up boogey men instead of actually reading what I wrote. My discussion was with mws in the first place, which you butted into. But, yes, this discussion is tiresome, so let’s agree to never mention it again.

I completely agree. Thanks for the comment!